In Peru, for the many school age children
not attending, we have developed a very successful means of educating
them up to the standard of children their age who are in school. We
prepare them to pass the entrance for the grades they belong in. We
help pay their registration fees, uniforms, class materials. Then
we support them
in school for two years: until they are well launched on their way
education.
[The
challenge: 26% of Peru´s Children, the poorest, remain uneducated]
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The Ministry of Education
have invited us
to install our informal schools for at-risk children, which
the Ministry of Education has until now been unable to reach,
within sellected primary and secondary schools. We agreed to
operate a pilot for two years, and thereafter have worked: in
several public and private schools in Peru.. |
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The venue was the July 2008 WHO nursing conference held in Israel and attended by
health care officials from 33 countries.. Nancy and her husband,
Tom Palmer, MD, have conducted annual clinics for our children
and parents beginning in 2005. |
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We have been getting enough
street kids into school via our carefully worked out method
that by early 2006 we started petitioning the Govt. to incorporate
this into their methodology.. |
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Govt. Convention Recognises
Bruce Peru Volunteer Success
ibid/ recognising Bruce
Peru´s, success at informal education, the Peruvian Government have
agreed to pay selected teachers. |
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Street Kids 2009 - Time to re-examine our approach to helping street children
and the families they come from.
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In April
2001 our founder arrived in Trujillo, Peru to put into practice
certain theories he had been working on designed to solve
the growing problem of school age children not receiving education.
Throughout Latin America between a fifth and a quarter of
all children are not in school.- most but not all of them
are qualified Street Children.
He did not come unprepared. His first project for at risk
children was in 1960, and he started his first NGO in 1976.
In Trujillo he went right to work proving and disproving one
theorem after another. Sponsor 15 mothers clubs if every mother
agreed to let him get their children into school. Open a chain
of free soup kitchens for children who agreed to let him put
them into school. Use theatre, music and dance to captivate
street children and register them into school. Funding came
from his own means and those of his family.
Soon he was joined by others - teachers, social workers, psychologists,
service personnel and lots of university students; some were
paid staff, most were volunteers.
For three years he and his team struggled against ignorance,
poverty, indifference, corruption, mediocre results and what
seemed to be a conspiracy to cover up the true number of children
being denied their right to an education: (the Government
said 96% of children in Peru attend school, UNICEF quoted
this figure) - but we produced evidence showing that only
76% of the nations children were actually in school. Since
the magnitude of the problem is thus concealed, no otherinstitution
or ngo is dedicated to helping these children..
During this period lots of extremely poor children did get
fed, clothed, medicated and educated; by us: but never enough
fast enough to be considered "The Solution" ..
Then in early 2004 we began to implement what later developed
into our current, effective solution to locating, recruiting
and educating street children. Since then we have implemented
this solution throughout Peru, and since 2006 have been introducing
it into other Latin American countries.
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Here are a few
of the Projects undertaken by
Bruce Volunteers
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Dilema Faces Peru's Schools, Out-of-school kids
and challenges to any who help. |
GARBAGE PATCH KIDS
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Regional dump
- where .hundreds of children and mums live on roting
garbage, breathing toxic fumes. |
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For
years Bruce´s Volunteers in Peru
helped and were helped by good friends
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and
during these years our founder.served as director
or advisor to several
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David and Vickie,
founders Hogar De Esperanza, orphanage and El Rancho,
refuge for street children on drugs. |
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Cesar and Marleni
(founders of Emaus Trujillo) at Bruce
Peru in 2001; the continuation of a 30 year union
between Bruce and Emmaus |
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Social
Responsibility
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Blanca at Bruce
Peru, she replaced Andres, who started Mundo de
Niños in Trujillo the same month as Bruce Peru.
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Hm.Lila, Director
of one of several ´Fe y Alegria´schools where our
little childrens educatiopnal centres function wherever
they can fit us in. |
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Manos de Pas
is a movable shelter for battered women and their
children, Bruce Peru has sponsored moves & Manos,
protected our moms and kids.. |
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Circlo Solidario provides Bruce Peru with the use
of one of its sturdy buildings whenever we enter
one of their barrios.. |
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Santo Tomaso
has provided good teachers and practitioners to
our schools, and Bruce Peru has helped sponsor a
small part of their work. |
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Rotary Club has sponsored
some projects and not a few children of Bruce Peru. |
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Red Cross of Trujilolo
are partnering with Bruce Peru to bring permanent
t community health to the barrios. |
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Lions Clubs
have been associated with Bruce Peru since our arrival,
here we are with the founder of Lions Clubs Trujillo. |
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Most of Bruce
Peru´s early staff and volunteers came from UPAO,
as did two Administrators of Bruce Peru. |
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Peru´s Volunteer Fire
Departments - maybe the best National charity. Bruce
Peru gives LAN, they save our kids.. |
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UCV propvides
most of the interns in Bruce Peru´s poverty eradication
projects, and all of our Psychologists. |
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New Hope International
is doing good work in Trujillo, some projects in
colaboration with Bruce Peru. |
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The police of Peru participate
with Bruce Peru involving at-risk teens. Their band
plays at our anniversary. |
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The Nastional University
of Peru, Trujillo have provided all our social workers
and many treachers. Hosted our Economic & Nutrition
Forums. |
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Bruce Peru and San Lucas
have partnered in Alta Trujillo over several years.
They are among our best friends in this work. |
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CampoSol
and Bruce Peru collaborated to provide more than
10 tonnes of nutritious food to our children and
mothers. |
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Quiet Irishman sponsors and names a school
after his Alma Mater back home.
Gavin Molloy,
with help from some generous friends has
patroned "Scoil losa"school in the barrio La Esperansa
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So far 24 children are attending. |
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Volunteer Life at Bruce - Photos of volunteers
who have served or are serving at the various centres
of Bruce. Also photos of some of our children in class,
& at play. |
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It takes 2 Years !. When we find a child, convince
the mother to let us get him or her educated, take them
into our little school, give them their first lessons;
finally get them up to the level of education for their
age, and matriculate them into a state school (paying
for uniforms and all expenses): our work for that child
is only just begun (2 years)
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Above are club meetings 7 June 2006We continue to work with each child,
and will do so for the next two years. Visiting every
month for a "Club Meeting" , at which we monitor their
progress, give prizes, work with their techers, our Social
Workers see how things are going at school, at home: and
we pay for wehatever their parents cannon or will not.
We do this for two years. |
HIV / AIDS pandemic thrives
in Latin America
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Sherrill Musty, the
publisher of the book "WHAT'S A VIRUS ANYWAY |
The UN has
declared that the number infected with HIV/AIDS
in Latin America is greater than that of Europe
and the USA combined. If you live in one of
these countries you would not know this - it is
not reported in the media, talked about in the chambers
of Government. They are in denial. But we know it
is there, children and families in the communities
we help are suffering: and there is little help
available. |
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For over three decades
Latin America has endured the unenviable distinction
of having more street children per capita than any place
on earth. What is less known is that for every child
who sleeps in the street there are 300 more in practically
the same condition who live on the street by day but
at night sleep under a plastic sheet or in a woven read
or adobe hovel with their siblings. Both are classed
as "Street Children", the distinction being 'IN' the
street, as opposed to 'ON' the street [those 'IN' are
more likely to be addicted to drugs]. When we first
arrived in Peru we worked with both types of Street
Children, but for the past three years we have concentrated
our efforts and resources in helping the much larger
but less known population of Street Children who live
On the street; those abandoned in their own homes. During
this time we have managed to open hub centres in 8 cities,
with 24 satellite children's centres located in the
poorest barrios: where we educate, feed, medicate and
care for them Won't you join us!.
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| Street kids,
..........They come
to us
..........as they are;
we make of
them
..........what they let us |
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